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Show TILDER'S TRIUMPH HOW IT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED, The stake of the presidency of the United States id a ceat one, but the importance of a fair, peaceful and free election and an booest and just return of the ballot cast vastly overwhelms over-whelms the mere partisan interests involved. Toe notion has survived more than fifteen yeara the revolutionary revolu-tionary and arbitrary rule of the republican party, aud yet, dcmoral-iied dcmoral-iied and contaminated as it has been by this prolonged period of misrule, violence and traud, the result of the election of last Tuesday shows conclusively con-clusively that a large majority of the American people have not lost faith in the principles of the constitution or in the ability of the people to overthrow an obnoxious and corrupt administration and to make a change of administrators through the billot box which is squivalent to a political revolution. It is to the credi. of the democratic party that it haj acquiesced acqui-esced in every peaceful verdict of the people, since the war, notwithstanding notwith-standing the recognize i facts that such verdicts hsve been made up on sectional grouodi anl interests, and under the pressure of administration, financial and military control. The election of 1372 wm cirri'! by Grant against the moral sentiment of th country. During the few weeks succeeding suc-ceeding the Greeley nomination by the liberals there was the utmost consternation con-sternation in the republican ranks. The north had been taken by atorm; the republican party was shaken by liberal republican defections, and had the election been held in July, (Jreeley might have been chosen. The Grant men rallied, a strong compromise com-promise was matin between the banking and financial intert-eta of both parties in tl.e north, and in the south the majority of states was completely controlled con-trolled from Washington. The democrats were absolutely power -1 less and Grant swept the country. Though the minority nam be red nearly 3,000,000 voter?, and the feel ing was prevalent that had the ad ministration kept iu hands out of the campaign, Greeley would have I een I the preeidf-nt, the democrats and liberals acquired in the rfsult. Tiifc influences which contro'.lei that election were felt to be lrrc-ly illi-it-irnate; yet tliey were of such a character char-acter that it would have hern dcmiied folly to dispute the result. There could be little doubt that a majority of the northern people were favorable to Grant's election, and the south had beeu placed in a position where its ! democratic strength could not be effectually brought out. tiince 1872 great changes hav tfiken place in tho Bentiment of the country. Grant's administration has disaHtisfiod many of the beet republicans. republi-cans. Two years ago a strong democratic demo-cratic house of representatives wn chosen and its investigations developed a condition of afTiirs in all dpart-inenta dpart-inenta of the government terrible to contemplate. Tho secretary ol war wan irnnfiarhfid. anil other officials Brnirched with evidences of fraud and ' corruption. The extravagance of the administration wi checked in a manner which gavo tho people confidence con-fidence in tho democratic parly. Northern Btatru heretofore republican Lad been gr.whially working over towards to-wards the oi'if'-fition. Mr. TiMen's work of reform in New York drew public attention towards this heretofore hereto-fore obscure m iii, and riiwlnftcd the fact that the country wai drifting towards to-wards a real change in the administration. adminis-tration. Tho nomination of Governor Jfayes in face of tho tremendous effort of Illairio, showrd that the republican re-publican managers ha1 brgun to feu I that the reform influence whs abrond; but the acquiescence of all tho cor runt politicians in his selection indict indi-ct led that no change of front had been taken, and that as president Haven' administration would ho controlled by the sumo men and in- , fl-i'-ncei that had been prominent sineo Hlill tho parly maimn'id U bring inlo the trarrt again cerium of tho more promiri' nt iiiti and in- J fluetieei whirb th"y had loit in 18715, fc On tho ground that fluy-ir would i Certainly ho tA-- nnd th'7 could I not aflord to be again on the losing side. But it was in the southern states that the greatest change had been made, not only in the controlling political influences but iu the popular sentiment. Tho most of these states h;.d fallen into democratic hnnile. Tho majority of tho ex-rebels had been enfranchised, and the obnoxious and destructive carpet-hag rule had disgusted even the white republicans, ; many of whom united their fortunes with the majority. Large numbers of the negores had discovered how falue were tho promises made to them bythc republican party, and how infamous were its charges that the whites would re enslave them should they obtain control of tho states. They also felt that republican promises wero empty husks, while their interests and their very existence were bound up with those of the whites. They could not aflord to he in antagonism to the controlling power in the community. In Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas Ar-kansas and other southern states, the respectable negroes came- over aud worked with the democratic party, and the fight in the present campaign cam-paign seems to have been not by the democrats to control tho negro vote, but by the administration to prevent a colored stampede to the democracy. This element, or a majority of it, had been fairly won by , the democrats as fairly and ' legitimately and with less coercion probably than is used by the mill-owners mill-owners in New England upon their operatives in favor of the republican I M-irK- Tt.o faz-tni-i- nncriil 1 vn vnr0 with his employer; the southern negro votes with his old master and present employer. The game interested inter-ested motives exist in both cuscs. It i impossible to separate our political ampaigua from such influences. The position of then publican party has been au unfortunate one, owing to the fact that it has become a national force mainly through tho votes of tho negroes, who comprise the moat ignorant portion of the community; com-munity; and its continued control of the government depended upon its keeping this ignorant mass of people uppermodt in some ol southern states. The present pres-ent election has demount rattd that this attempt is frustrated by the uprising of tho whites and the con-1 trol iu their own interest ot the south. Unless they could have done this they mu?t have given up their homes to the African race, and the Africanization Africaniza-tion of the south would mean simply a retrograde movement back towards the barbarism of the past. The substantial sub-stantial democratic victory in South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana and the election of Tildeu have just ttiie significance the United States U a white man's country the republic is safe the rights ol the whole people, white and black, aro aa-ured. |